Lois Wyse Short Quotes

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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

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We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

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Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

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If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

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Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

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Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

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No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

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The only people in the whole world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

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It was only long after the ceremony
That we learned
Why we got married
In the first place.

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Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.

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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive — and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

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Repeat nothing — absolutely nothing — that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

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So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

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The older he got, the more comfortable his prejudices became and now, like his pipe, they seemed a part of his manner and dress.

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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

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Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good — ' It never is.

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Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

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I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

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The single most dangerous word to be spoken in business is 'no.' The second most dangerous word is 'yes.' It is possible to avoid saying either.

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Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

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For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter. Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

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A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

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